Gemini 8’s ordeal began shortly after its ... not achieved such scheduled goals as Astronaut Scott’s two-hour walk in space, the first vise of a power tool in space and a host of other ...

Gemini was the program that taught NASA how to work in space, and where vital questions would be answered before the big dance of Apollo. Chief among these questions were tackling the problems ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

The U.S. has not sent a man into space since May 1963—when Astronaut ... the end of the Mercury program and the start of the Gemini series of earth orbits in a two-man capsule.

float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission, part of the Soviet Union’s attempt in competition with the US to reach the moon. Leonov’s walk on 18 March 1965 ...

June 3-7: On Gemini 4, a particularly strong astronaut, Edward White II, exits his vehicle and performs the first American space walk. The ease with which he maneuvers will not be easily ...

Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman cosmonaut in 1963 and two years later another cosmonaut, Alexei Leonov, became the first person to perform a space walk ... for the Gemini and Apollo ...